WikiMapia was helpful in showing mosques in Indonesia, maybe they will have some showing in N Africa as well.
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Kate Chapman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > I haven't any experience in North Africa with this. We've been doing > quite a bit in Indonesia. Mosques are pretty easy to see from decent > satellite data. Another option would be to create basemaps and > collect the information from local knowledge, which will be required > for some of the other types of religious facilities. That is what we > are doing in Jakarta this month: > > http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/Jakarta_best_community_mapped_for_preparedness > > We are collecting other types of facilities as well but the idea is > for flood evacuation. > > Best, > > -Kate > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 7:21 PM, robert colombo <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Has anyone any information about maps of locations of religious centers > in > > any North African city? Any experience in creating a OSM map with this > has > > been developed. > > > > in any case i would like to see the possibility of engaging local > community > > in Tunis to try to create this registry. Can this be > done trough Satellite > > imagery (OSM has sufficient resolution??) . Can minarets > > be extracted automatically trough Remote sensing analysis? > > > > if a methodology is found, this can be a good idea for > > future developments as religious centers turn to be shelters, mass > gahtering > > places, storage and safe heavens... > > > > Let me know! > > > > -- > > Robert > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > HOT mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >
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